RIP Little Red Jeep

After the Christmas in Oregon was over it was time for Team 3Up to lead a caravan of fun back to Idaho. Unfortunately, loaded down with a regular refigerator, an RV refrigerator and freezer (for the cabin), a freezer, and a trailer axle the little red Jeep just wasn’t up for it. Right in Portland (THANK GOD) the clacking started and steam started coming out the exhaust. We got off at the next exit and had to declare my car dead. On our way to Idaho. With a ton of shit. And six friends expecting to stay at our house that night and go to the cabin tomorrow.

So. We started shopping. But that’s a story for tomorrow. For now a requiem for the little red Cherokee that could:

I found a 5 speed Cherokee about four hours away (fortunately where my parents live). We promptly load up six-week old Sprocket and head north.

And then the Jeep spent a summer exploring the Montana Rockies before I used it to move all of our stuff to Idaho (regretfully there is not a picture of it loaded down with the little red Harbor Freight trailer also very full behind it).